Cancel the Great Bull Run!

Late Friday, the Great Bull Run Company submitted a rushed application for a state livestock exhibitor license to the Georgia Department of Agriculture for the “running of the bulls” events scheduled for this Saturday at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, Georgia. Despite clear legal requirements that the company obtain this license 21 days prior to any livestock exhibition, the Georgia Department of Agriculture rushed through a state holiday to issue the license by Tuesday. The Company has yet to obtain a federal license, so the Animal Legal Defense Fund will continue pushing state and federal officials to cancel these events in the months to come. You can help by contacting Conyers, Georgia Mayor Randal Mills and explaining why this dangerous, cruel event must be stopped.

On October 19, the Great Bull Run Company will host a “running of the bulls” event at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, Georgia. ALDF has called on the Georgia Department of Agriculture and the City of Conyers to cancel this inhumane, dangerous event.

The Great Bull Run is a thrill seeking competition primarily geared toward what the Great Bull Run website refers to as “adrenaline junkies.” Although the Great Bull Run claims that the participating bulls will not be killed or mistreated, the event will be inherently stressful to bulls that are forced to run in hazardously close proximity to other bulls and thousands of humans in a narrow enclosure. Unlike human participants, the bulls cannot choose to sit out the Great Bull Run.

Under the Animal Welfare Act the Great Bull Run is required to obtain a United States Department of Agriculture license to ensure the safety of both humans and animals. But the Great Bull Run has no such license. Georgia law requires the Great Bull Run to prove its bulls meet interstate veterinary care, vaccination, and general health requirements as a livestock exhibitor. We haven’t seen evidence that the Great Bull Run meets those requirements.

Please don’t have a Bull Run in Georgia! We know from the ones in Spain that it results in injuries and/or deaths in humans & bulls. Surely you can entertain yourself in a less violent way. Those bulls don’t even consent to it! Leave them alone!

I can’t believe the 4th century mindset of such imbeciles. Let’s put a stop to this cruel, stupid, inhumane activity at once. You can certainly publish this if you want. I’m not afraid to stand up against these bullies. (no pun intended)

Please don’t have a Bull Run in Georgia! We know from the ones in Spain that it results in injuries and/or deaths in humans & bulls. Surely you can entertain yourself in a less violent way. Those bulls don’t even consent to it! Leave them alone this is disgusting… all form of entertainment that risk animals lives should be stopped

America is going backwards if we allow this, this barbaric behavior belongs in the stone age. Spain is finally taking steps to ban all of this cruelty, why should America lower itself by ignoring International objections to animal cruelty?!

If these people get injured doing this stupidity, it’s going to be other insurance policy holders (or the taxpayers) who pick up the tab for their medical treatment and disability payments. For that reason alone, every person with a brain should be opposed, opposed to this nonsense!

We have worked for years to try and get Spain to stop having these… only to have them taking place in North America? Are we not better than this and can’t we find ways to entertain ourselves that don’t involve a living creature that can’t consent. Adrenaline junkies who would participate.. go get your thrill in something that doesn’t involve an animal, something where you risk only yourself.

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